ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,894, issued on May 12, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode drying system and electrode drying method" was invented by Jin Young Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Hoe Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Hoon Choy (Daejeon, South Korea), Shin Wook Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young Kuk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for drying an electrode includes: an oven which applies hot air and radiant heat to an electrode sheet; and a controller which receives information on drying standby time, and controls an amount of heat supplied into the oven. Herein, the controller contr...